Colony bursting out of 14x12

jenkinsbrynmair said:

So you left the queen in there after finding all those sealed QC's ?

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MuswellMetro said:

i had one on 14x12 double brood last year, my advice is add TWO supers under the other 2 supers, they need space to rest at night, a full emerging brood frame of 14x12 requires almost half a super for resting space ( a bee occupies three times the area of a brood cell)

mouseguard off, Summer Bees are quite capable of defending a open entrance, Wasps attack IN AUTUMN not spring and they find it easier to get in a via mouseguard as not every hole is defended whereas a guard bee can partol quite a large area from the edge of a single large hole in an entrance block

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